Olá família! It's me again. :) P-Day once more, and there's only two weeks left until transfers come around again!!! CRAZY how fast the time is flying. It's almost November??? When did THAT happen? haha :) Is it feeling that way for you guys too, or is mission time just messing with my brain?
But things are going great here in Maringá. Remember how I said we've been working really hard lately to find new people to teach? Well, we were looking for a miracle this week ... really searching for someone who was prepared to be baptized on Sunday, and although it didn't come in the form of a baptism, we DID find an amazing family to teach. We met Lorena, 15, while doing contacts in the street. She was really interested in our message, and we set an appointment right then to teach her and her family. So we've been teaching her and her mom, Cleide, and they are both REALLY open and receptive - eleitas. :)
It's usually SO HARD to get investigators to come to church...we have to explain and explain and explain the importance of keeping the Sabbath Day holy, the sacrament, church meetings, etc.... We have to arrange to have someone come and pick them up in the morning, just so they won't have any excuse to not show up. Seriously, sometimes it can be a lot of work to get an investigator to church on Sunday. But Cleide is an eleita. She got up in the morning, went out, and caught a bus to take her all the way to the chapel in downtown Maringá, carrying her two year old daughter the whole way. :) It's so awesome to see people with that kind of faith, that desire to do the right things just because they know it's right.
What else happened this week....oh! Daniel had to wait a week in between his baptism because of stake conference last week, but this Sunday he finally got to be confirmed. It was awesome! His testimony is more and more solid every week, and that is so cool to see. The blessing that he received during the confirmation was powerful, and he was blessed to become a great leader in the church. Amazing to see how the gospel helps us to grow and reach our full potential. :)
We're still working with his son, Alexandre, but haven't made a ton of progress yet. We still haven't been able to get him to come to church, but aren't really sure what's keeping him back... Okay, so I forgot to tell this story last week - when we brought Alexandre to the Book of Mormon play last week, we showed him around the chapel a little bit - the classrooms, the baptismal font, etc. He seemed uncharacteristically quiet while we explained everything to him, and later he told us that a looong time ago he'd had a dream about the chapel - he's kind of hard to take seriously sometimes, so at first I wasn't sure if he was telling the truth, but he was definitely being sincere. He also said that he dreamed about a man there in the chapel, one of the whitest people he'd EVER seen in his life, and that he recognized him that night at the activity - our district leader, Elder Griner! Crazy, right? We thought that maybe because of this dream, Elder Griner would be able to make the difference that we somehow weren't making, so he came to our area yesterday to talk with Alexandre. Apparently it went well, and we're going to continue working with him this week. :)
In other news, it's hot. haha :) I'm apparently not adjusting to the heat or the humidity very well, because I end up completely drenched in sweat every day... the other sisters say that I'll get used to it, but I'm not so sure. :P It's ridiculously embarrassing, but ah well. Could be worse. :)
I think that's all for now. It's great to be here. I'm happy. :) Keep writing me letters and such! I love you all soooo much and pray for you ALL!!!
Love,
Sister Gee
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